Adjustable wood-measuring rack



(No Model.)

H. L. BROUGHT'ON.

ADJUSTABLE WOOD MEASURING RACK.

No. 356,917. Patented Feb 1, 1887.

ATTORNEYS.

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ilnirnn Starts Parent @rrrca HORACE LINCOLN BROUGHTON, OF MARBLEHEAD,MASSACHUSETTS.

ADJUSTABLE \NOOD MEASURING RACK.

E'JPECiFICfATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,917, datedFebruary 1, 1887.

Application filed October 25, 1886.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, Henson LINCOLN BROUGIITON, of Marblehead, in thecounty of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new andImproved Wood-Measuring Frame, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention relates to a frame adapted to measure wood by the cord orfractional parts of a cord, as occasion may require; and the inventionhas for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive structure of thischaracter which may be used by any person of ordinary intelligence tomeasure wood with economy of time and labor.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construct-ion andcombinations of parts of the wood-measuring frame, all as hereinafterfully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my inn:

and a are detail views of parts thereof.

'Iwo longitudinallyranging timbers, A B, connected by cross-bars O O,niortised and pinned or otherwise suitably framed to the timbers A B,constitute the sill-frame of the wood-measurer. Near one end of thetimbers A B uprights or posts D E, respectively, are fixed to thesill-timbers and braced thereto by iron rods (2, and braced to eachother by a pair of crossed rods, e c.

To the inner faces of the sill-timbers A B there are screwed a series ofheaded pins, F, the first ones being exactly one foot from the innerface of the end frame formed by the braced posts D E, and the other pinsF are spaced exactly one foot apart.

lwo posts, G H, braced together by crossed rods h h. are adapted tostand on the sill-timbers A B, respectively, and to the inside face ofeach post is attached by coach-screws i a metal plate, I, which projectsdown at the inner face of the adjacent sill-timber, and is provided witha hook, J, at its extremity, adapted to engage the shank or body of oneof the headed screw-pins F. Thescrewsi pass through slots i made in theplates 1, and washers are Serial No. $7,147. (No model.)

preferably interposed between the heads of the screws and the plates. Abrace, K, having a notch or concavity, Ir, at its lower end,

has two arms, k it", which are slotted at Z I, at

or near their outer or upper ends, for the passage of coach screws Linto the respective posts G H, whereby the braces will be held to theseposts and their lower ends will be adapted to engage the pins F on thesill-timbers. By slotting the plates 1 I and braces K K at i and Z,respectively, for the passage of the bolts i and L the movable frame G Hh may be quickly and easily set perfectly plumb, whichever opposite pairof the sill-pins F may be engaged by the hooked plates I I.

The posts D E G H are exactly four feet high, and the post E is markedby cross-lines, as at 1 2 8, to indicate feet, the top of the post at 4indicating four feet in height.

It is obvious that to measure a full cord of wood it is only necessaryto engage the hooks J J of the movable frame G H h with the eighthpins FF of the sill-timbers A B from the fixed posts 1) E, and fill the woodinto the frame level with the tops of the posts. To measure one-half ofa cord of wood, the hooks J will be engaged with the fourth-pins F fromthe posts D E, and by adjusting the hooks J to the first pair of pins Ffrom the posts D E, and filling the wood in between the end posts up tothe mark or line 1 on the post E, a single foot of wood may be measured,or up to the line 2 for two feet, or to the line 3 for three feet, or tothe tops of the posts for four feet.

Any fractional quantity of a cord of wood may thus be accuratelymeasured by adjusting the frame G H h, and when necessary filling in thewood to the gage marks or lines on the post E, and with economy of timeand labor.

To disengage the hooks J of the frame G H h, it is only necessary totilt the frame toward the fixed posts D E, or in direction of the an rowin Fig. 1, and the movable frame then may be shifted to any point alongthe sillframe, as will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. A wood-measuring frame comprising asill-frame, A B O, fixed posts D E thereon, pins, as F, on thesill-frame, and amovable end frame, G H 71, on the sill-frame andprovided with catches adapted to engage the sillframe pins F,substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a wood-measuring frame, of a sill-frame, A B 0,pins F on the sill-frame, fixed posts D-E, a movable frame comprisingposts G H, and hook-p1ates I J on said posts, and braces K, held at oneend to the posts G H, and adapted to engage the pins F, substantially asshown and described.

3. In a wood-measuring frame, the combination, with the sill-framethereof provided with pins F and a movable end frame comprising posts GH, of hook-plates I J and braces K on the posts and adapted to engagethe pins F, and said hook-plates and braces slotted at i Z.respectively, for the passage of I fastening-screwsz'L, substantially asdescribed,

for the purposes set forth.

4. In a wood-measuring frame, the braces K for the movable end frame,made with a concavity, 7e, at the lower end, and with two arms, k is,having slots Z for the passage of attaching screws, substantially asshown and described.

5. A wood-measuring frame comprising a silli'rame, a fixed end frame, asD E, and a movable end frame, as G H, on the sillframe, and the post Eof the fixed end frame provided with scale-marks, as 1 2 3,substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

HORACE LINCOLN BROUGHTON.

\Vitnesses:

EVERETT PAINE, JOHN G. BROUGHTON.

